One dead, another injured after vehicle plunges into gorge on Jammu-Srinagar highway
A man died while another suffered grievous injuries in a mishap on Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning, police said. An official said that a Srinagar-bound pick-up truck (bearing registration number JK14D 3673) carrying bovines went out of the driver’s control and plunged into a deep gorge near army […]
Another suicide among CRPF ranks in Kashmir, Officials say COVID has led to depression
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel committed suicide after shooting himself dead with his service riffle in Rambagh area of Srinagar. Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), CRPF spokesman in Srinagar Pankaj Singh said that a CRPF man posted at Group Centre Rambagh identified as Pintoo Mondal of West Bengal, shot himself dead. […]
Civilian injured along LoC in Rajouri
A cattle grazer sustained injuries in a mysterious explosion on Sunday near Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed officials told the news agency that the injured man has been identified as Ajay of Sehar Makri village on LoC in Bhawani area of Nowshera Tehsil […]
JK reports 615 new positive cases, 9928 recovered so far
JAMMU, JULY 26: The Government on Sunday informed that 615 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 136 from Jammu division and 479 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 17920. Also 07 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 01 from Jammu […]
Class IV posts: JKSSB’s Portal records 3,23,690 registrations; 1,68,810 candidates submit online application so far
JAMMU, JULY 26: Till today morning, 3,23,690 Registrations have been done by the candidates on JKSSB’s Online Portal, since the commencement of online application submission from 10th July, 2020 and 1,68,810 candidates completed their online application submission process for Class IV posts. Also 26,240 applications have been submitted online for the post of Accounts Assistant. […]
Farooq Abdullah Calls For Restoration Of Statehood To Jammu And Kashmir, Pins Hopes On SC For ‘Justice’
As the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status is set to complete one year on August 5, former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Sunday called for restoration of its statehood and hoped the Supreme Court would render justice by striking down the repeal of Article 370 provisions. In his first media interview after the […]
JKAP demands end to discrimination with NHM, RNTCP employees
Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) senior leader and former minister Ghulam Hassan Mir on Sunday expressed serious concern over the plight of employees working on contract basis under National Health Mission (NHM) and RNTCP (Revised National Tuberculosis Programme). In a statement issued to KNS , Mir said that thousands of such employees including doctors, […]
India’s COVID-19 tally climbs to 13,85,522
New Delhi:With48,661 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day,India’s COVID-19 tally climbed to13,85,522 on Sunday,while the recoveries mounted to8,85,576,according to the Union Health Ministry data. The COVID-19 death toll in the country rose to 32,063 with 705 fatalities being recorded in a day, the data updated at 8 am showed. There are 4,67,882 […]
RE-IMPOSITION OF LOCKDOWN
Some of the decisions taken by the UT administration of Jammu and Kashmir has invoked curiosity in some circles and anger in others. People are curious to know why the initial lockdown was a week ahead of national lockdown and why there was no schedule announced for supply of essential services and opening shops to […]
Govt opens, shuts window of tourism in Kashmir
Srinagar: In the past two months, the UT administration of Jammu and Kashmir took many decisions to try to revive the economy and main sectors like tourism. Most of such decisions by senior officers remained on paper as the ground realities scripted their demise. While bureaucrats talk big about the revival of tourism in Kashmir, local […]